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Speaker 1: Few numbers out this morning show our food and fiber

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Speaker 1: exports on track to break even the last records we set.

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Speaker 1: Dairy export revenue up sixteen percent to twenty seven billion,

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Speaker 1: record meat and wall up eight percent twelve point three billion,

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Speaker 1: record horticulture up nineteen percent to eight point five billion

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Speaker 1: on tractor hit sixty billion total for the first time.

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Speaker 1: This is for the year ending June. Projections forecast from

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Speaker 1: the Outlook for Primary Industries Report. Suma Katapeva is with

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Speaker 1: US Meat Industry Association SUMA. Good morning, Good morning, this

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Speaker 1: is great news.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it certainly is. It's very pleasing to see this

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Speaker 2: forecast uplift and eight percent is quite impressive to the

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Speaker 2: year end thirty June. So yeah, it's a good good

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Speaker 2: outlook for the sector and it's always you know, these

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Speaker 2: results reinforced that the red meat sector plays a really

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Speaker 2: crucial role in supporting New Zealand's economy, particularly in our

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Speaker 2: rural and regional community.

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Speaker 1: Who's buying our meat, our lock.

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Speaker 2: This year, we've seen growth and value to most of

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Speaker 2: our major export markets. There's been robust demand from New

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Speaker 2: Zealand beef and she'd meet from the United States a

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Speaker 2: significant increase in sheep meet volumes to the EU and

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Speaker 2: we're starting to see a good recovery and exports to

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Speaker 2: China as well.

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Speaker 1: Long may that continue because that's important obviously now one

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Speaker 1: of the things the government wants to do. And by

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Speaker 1: the way, the projection for sixty five billion by twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty nine means that this is expected to keep increasing.

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Speaker 1: But this idea that we will double the value of

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Speaker 1: exports in ten years, do you think it's doable?

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Speaker 2: Our? Look, I think it's a wonderful aspiration and from

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Speaker 2: our perspective, it is doable. We're doing all that we

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Speaker 2: can to lift the value of our products going into

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Speaker 2: export markets. We've got a robust strategy in place to

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Speaker 2: do that and we're working very closely to keep on

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Speaker 2: top of that and keep targeting our exports to those

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Speaker 2: high performing markets that are paying good export process.

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Speaker 1: What would product? What would be the thing getting in

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Speaker 1: the way. Is it just global demand and supply or

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Speaker 1: is there something in New Zealand. What's one thing the

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Speaker 1: government could do to make that job easier for you?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Look, I think the government is laser focused on

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Speaker 2: supporting the primary industry to grow and to continue to

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Speaker 2: be that economic engine for New Zealand. I've just been

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Speaker 2: at Field Days yesterday and the messages are really reassuring

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Speaker 2: about being right there next to the primary industries, helping

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Speaker 2: them to uplift productivity, value production, making sure that there

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Speaker 2: are no impediments, be they trade impediments or domestic regulatory

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Speaker 2: impediments that just add a necessary cost and frustration. So

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Speaker 2: I think the government is certainly focused on doing what

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Speaker 2: it can to support the.

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Speaker 1: Growth of this I appreciate your time this morning. That's

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Speaker 1: sum Katapeva, the Meat Industry Association. For more from Early

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